I was watching ‘Deal or No Deal’ on YouTube recently, and I bawled when the contestant won £250,000. I think I just like watching people achieve their dreams. Katarina Johnson-Thompson Read Quote
I get suggestions all the time. People feel quite free at events or even on the street to tell me what they think I should be writing. What I’ve learned, though, is that this thing, this connection, has to be in place for me to be able to kind of launch into a world imaginatively. Paula McLain Read Quote
I still have a thorn in my side at not having played for Real Madrid or Barcelona, because playing there is a dream for every player. But I consider myself very satisfied to have played for the best teams in Italy. Andrea Pirlo Read Quote
At school, myself and some pals, all football-daft, divided up the old English First Division and wrote off to half a dozen clubs each asking for a trial. Drew Busby Read Quote
The glacier was God’s great plough set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were, the surface of the earth. Louis Agassiz Read Quote
People really want to believe that there is no fiction. I think they find it much easier to imagine that novelists are writing memoirs, writing about their lives, because it’s difficult to conceive that there’s a great imaginary life in which you can participate. Mark Leyner Read Quote
Some people are born and train their whole life to be an NBA player. But some people, if it doesn’t work out, then they have no other option. Devin Booker Read Quote
There’s this sort of cloud that hangs where people are like: ‘How long can you keep the heat of ‘Homeland’ going?’ People have short memories is the truth, and Hollywood loves the new and shiny. Damian Lewis Read Quote
Many of the comedies I had made in Sweden were slightly based on semi-autobiographical experiences, so adapting novels was a very different experience. Lasse Hallstrom Read Quote
